If campfires, human speech and various other strange ideas on how to recharge old cell phones were not enough, a company in the United Kingdom has come up with yet another wacky way to repower the devices.

The ban on using new or old cell phones while operating a motor vehicle in Washington State in the United States is now 12 months old, but is anyone actually listening? Washington State Patrol officers say that a large percentage of drivers just do not seem to care, with many not even attempting to hide the fact they are using a cell phone while driving.

In a recent poll conducted by TNS, it was discovered that while over 80% of US cell phone users report being aware of the cell phone related cancer risk warnings released by the World Health Organization, most say it will not be affecting their use of their cells.

A self-proclaimed “educated” woman has been forced to leave a passenger train after using bad language and talking at an excessive volume on her used cell phone, in the second such incident to hit the media in barely a month.

Thieves who target businesses and even residential homes in order to steal copper pipes and wires is nothing new, but in Des Moines in Iowa in the United States, the criminals have suddenly found a different target – old cell phone towers.

Old cell phones may not actually grow on trees, but they could help to grow trees, if a new Nokia cell phone recycling campaign in Indonesia pays off. The program, which has been given the name of “Give and Grow 2011: Give Mobile Phones, Grow Trees”, was actually first implemented two years ago back in 2009, but Nokia is stepping up the campaign.